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A national museum can be a museum maintained and funded by a national government. In many countries it denotes a museum run by the central government, while other museums are run by regional or local governments. In the United States, most national museums are privately funded and operated, but have been designated by Congress as national institutions that are important to the country. In other countries a much greater number of museums are run by the central government.

The following is an incomplete list of national museums:

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Afghanistan

  • National Museum of Afghanistan

Albania

The Albanian government operates several national museums, including:

  • National History Museum (Albania)
  • National Museum of Education (Albania)
  • National Museum of Fine Arts (Albania)
  • National Museum of Medieval Art (Albania)
  • Marubi National Museum of Photography

Algeria

  • National Museum of Fine Arts of Algiers
  • National Museum of Antiquities and Islamic Art

Angola

  • Museu Nacional de História Natural de Angola
  • National Museum of Slavery

Argentina

The Argentinian Ministry of Culture operates several national museums, including:

Armenia

Australia

The Australian Government operates several national museums through its various departments, including:

In addition, a number of states in Australia also operate "national museums". These include:

Austria

  • Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
  • Natural History Museum, Vienna
  • Museum of Military History, Vienna
  • Österreichische Galerie Belvedere

Azerbaijan

Bahamas

  • National Art Gallery of The Bahamas

Bahrain

  • Bahrain National Museum

Bangladesh

  • Bangladesh National Museum
  • National Art Gallery (Bangladesh)
  • National Museum of Science and Technology (Bangladesh)
  • Bangabandhu Military Museum

Barbados

  • Barbados Museum

Belarus

  • Belarusian National Arts Museum
  • Belarusian National History Museum

Belgium

The Federal Public Service for Science Policy Programming in Belgium operates several museum associations:

Belize

  • Museum of Belize

Bhutan

  • National Museum of Bhutan

Bolivia

  • National Museum of Archaeology
  • National Museum of Art

Bosnia and Herzegovina

  • Bosnian and Herzegovinian Museum of Literature
  • Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Botswana

  • Botswana National Museum

Brazil

  • National Historical Museum, Brazil (Museu Histórico Nacional)
  • National Museum of Brazil (Museu Nacional)
  • National Museum of Fine Arts (Museu Nacional de Belas Artes)
  • National Museum of the Republic (Museu Nacional da República)

Brunei

The government of Brunei operates several museums including:

  • Brunei Museum
  • Brunei Darussalam Maritime Museum
  • Malay Technology Museum
  • Royal Regalia Museum

Bulgaria

  • National Archaeological Museum
  • National Historical Museum
  • National Art Gallery
  • National Gallery for Foreign Art
  • National Museum of Natural History
  • Earth and Man National Museum
  • National Museum of Military History
  • National Transport Museum

Burkina Faso

  • National Museum of Music

Burundi

  • National Museum of Gitega

Cambodia

  • National Museum of Cambodia
  • Angkor National Museum

Canada

The following are national museums of Canada, established by the federal government of Canada and operated through an autonomous Crown corporation:

Former national museums that were later shut down includes:

In addition to institutions established or operated by the Government of Canada, several provinces and territories have established their own provincial and territorial museums.

Central African Republic

  • Boganda National Museum

Chad

  • Chad National Museum (Musee National N'Djamena)

Chile

  • National Air and Space Museum (Santiago)
  • National History Museum
  • National Museum of Fine Arts (Santiago)
  • National Museum of Natural History (Santiago)

China

  • National Museum of China
  • Palace Museum
  • Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution
  • National Art Museum of China

Colombia

  • National Museum of Colombia

Comoros

  • National Museum of Comoros

Congo, Democratic Republic of the

  • National Museum of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • National Museum of Lubumbashi

Costa Rica

  • National Museum of Costa Rica

Croatia

  • Croatian History Museum

Cuba

  • Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana
  • Museo Nacional de Historia Natural Cubana

Cyprus

  • Cyprus Museum

Czech Republic

  • National Gallery Prague
  • National Museum, Prague

Denmark

  • Det Grønne Museum [da]
  • Hirschsprung Collection
  • National Gallery of Denmark
  • National Museum of Denmark
  • Natural History Museum of Denmark
  • Ordrupgaard

Djibouti

  • Djibouti Museum

Dominica

  • The Dominica Museum

Dominican Republic

  • Museum of the Dominican Man
  • Memorial Museum of Dominican Resistance
  • Museo del Ámbar Dominicano
  • Trampoline Children's Museum
  • Amber World Museum
  • Alcázar de Colón
  • Fortaleza San Luis
  • Columbus Lighthouse
  • Fortaleza San Felipe
  • Museo Bellapart
  • Museo de las Casas Reales

Egypt

  • Egyptian Museum
  • National Museum of Egyptian Civilization
  • Alexandria National Museum
  • Egyptian National Military Museum

Eritrea

  • National Museum of Eritrea

Estonia

  • Art Museum of Estonia
  • Estonian National Museum
  • Estonian History Museum

Ethiopia

  • National Museum of Ethiopia

Fiji

  • Fiji Museum

Finland

  • Ateneum
  • Finnish Museum of Natural History
  • Kiasma
  • National Museum of Finland
  • Sinebrychoff Art Museum

France

  • Centre Georges Pompidou (Musée National d'Art Moderne)
  • Musée de l'Armée
  • Musée Camille Claudel
  • Musée de Cluny - National Museum of the Middle-Ages (Musée National du Moyen-Age)
  • Musée du Louvre
  • Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations (MuCEM)
  • Musée d'Orsay
  • Museum of Air and Space (Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace)
  • Museum of Natural History (Muséum national d'histoire naturelle)
  • Museum of Science and Industry (Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie)
  • National Navy Museum (Musée national de la Marine)
  • National Railway Museum (Musée Français du Chemin de Fer)

Gambia

  • Gambia National Museum

Georgia

  • Georgian National Museum. Branches:
    • Simon Janashia Museum of Georgia, Tbilisi
    • Samtskhe-Javakheti History Museum, Akhaltsikhe
    • Open Air Museum of Ethnography, Tbilisi
    • Art Museum of Georgia, Tbilisi
    • Museum of the Soviet Occupation, Tbilisi
    • Dmanisi Museum-Reserve of History and Archaeology, Dmanisi
    • Vani Museum-Reserve of Archaeology, Vani
    • Museum of History of Tbilisi, Tbilisi
    • Museum of History and Ethnography of Svaneti, Mestia
    • Institute of Palaeobiology, Tbilisi
    • Sighnaghi Museum, Sighnaghi
    • Bolnisi Museum, Bolnisi
  • Art Palace of Georgia - Museum of Cultural History

Germany

  • Bavarian National Museum
  • German Historical Museum
  • German Museum of Technology (Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin)
  • German National Museum (Germanisches Nationalmuseum)
  • Glyptothek
  • The Max Planck Institutes
  • Modern Art Museum (Pinakothek der Moderne)
  • National Gallery
  • National Museum of Germany (Deutsches Museum)
  • New Pinakothek (Neue Pinakothek)
  • Old Pinakothek (Alte Pinakothek)

Ghana

  • National Museum of Ghana

Greece

  • Athens War Museum
  • National Archaeological Museum, Athens
  • National Gallery
  • National Historical Museum, Athens
  • State Museum of Contemporary Arts

Grenada

  • Grenada National Museum

Guatemala

  • Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología
  • Guatemalan National History Museum
  • Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno "Carlos Mérida"

Guinea

  • Sandervalia National Museum

Guinea-Bissau

  • National Ethnographic Museum

Guyana

  • National Museum of Guyana

Haiti

  • National Museum of Haiti

Holy See (Vatican City)

Hong Kong

  • Hong Kong Museum of Art
  • Hong Kong Museum of History
  • Hong Kong Heritage Museum
  • Hong Kong Science Museum

Hungary

  • Hungarian National Museum
  • Hungarian National Gallery
  • Hungarian Natural History Museum
  • Museum of Ethnography (Budapest)
  • Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest)
  • Semmelweis Museum of Medical History

Iceland

  • National Gallery of Iceland
  • National Museum of Iceland

Isle of Man

  • Manx National Heritage (Eiraght Ashoonagh Vannin)

India

National-level museums in India come directly under the administrative control of Ministry of Culture, Government of India.

  • National Museum, New Delhi
  • Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya
  • Indian Museum
  • Government Museum, Mathura
  • National Gallery of Modern Art
  • Allahabad Museum
  • Government Museum, Chennai
  • Salar Jung Museum
  • Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum
  • Government Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh
  • City Palace, Jaipur
  • City Palace, Udaipur
  • National Handicrafts and Handlooms Museum
  • Victoria Memorial
  • Jaisalmer War Museum
  • Hazarduari Palace
  • Sabarmati Ashram
  • Cavalry Tank Museum, Ahmednagar
  • National Rail Museum, New Delhi
  • Railway Museum, Mysore
  • Albert Hall Museum
  • Madame Tussauds Delhi
  • 23 science centers under the National Council of Science Museums
  • 44 site museums under the Archaeological Survey of India

Indonesia

Museums listed below are operated by Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology and other ministries.

  • National Museum of Indonesia
  • Basoeki Abdullah Museum
  • Formulation of Proclamation Text Museum
  • Fort Vredeburg Museum
  • Museum of National Awakening
  • National Gallery of Indonesia
  • National Press Monument
  • Some government-operated museums in Taman Mini Indonesia Indah
  • Youth Pledge Museum

Iran

  • National Museum of Iran

Iraq

Ireland

Israel

Italy

  • Bargello National Museum (Museo Nazionale del Bargello)
  • Galleria degli Uffizi
  • National Archeological Museum of Naples (Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli)
  • National Archaeological Museum of Nuoro
  • National Etruscan Museum (Museo Nazionale Etrusco)
  • National Gallery of Ancient Art (Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica)
  • National Gallery of Modern Art (Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna)
  • National Museum of Capodimonte (Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte)
  • National Museum of Magna Grecia (Museo Nazionale della Magna Grecia)
  • National Museum of Oriental Art
  • National Museum of Rome
  • Pinacoteca di Brera

Japan

Jordan

  • The Jordan Museum
  • Jordan Archaeological Museum
  • Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts

Kazakhstan

  • National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan
  • Central State Museum of Kazakhstan
  • Kazakh Museum of Folk Musical Instruments
  • A. Kasteyev State Museum of Arts
  • Nature Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Kenya

  • National Museums of Kenya

Kiribati

  • Te Umanibong

North Korea

  • Korean Central History Museum
  • Korean Art Gallery

South Korea

Kosovo

  • Kosovo Museum

Kuwait

  • Al-Hashemi-II Marine Museum
  • Kuwait National Museum
  • Kuwait Science and Natural History Museum

Kyrgyzstan

  • Kyrgyz State Historical Museum

Laos

  • Lao National Museum

Latvia

  • Latvian National Museum of Art
  • Latvian National Museum of History

Lebanon

  • National Museum of Beirut

Liberia

  • Liberian National Museum

Libya

See also: List of museums in Libya
  • Red Castle Museum
  • Museum of Libya

Liechtenstein

  • Liechtenstein National Museum

Lithuania

See also: List of museums in Lithuania
  • National Museum of Lithuania
  • Lithuanian National Museum of Art
  • Vytautas the Great War Museum

Luxembourg

  • National Museum of History and Art, Luxembourg City
  • National Museum of Military History, Diekirch
  • National Museum of Natural History, Luxembourg City

Macau

  • Museum of Macau

Malawi

  • Chichiri Museum

Malaysia

  • Muzium Negara
  • National Art Gallery (Malaysia)

Maldives

  • National Museum

Mali

  • National Museum of Mali

Malta

  • National Museum of Archaeology
  • National Museum of Ethnography
  • National Museum of Fine Arts
  • National Museum of Natural History
  • National War Museum

Marshall Islands

  • Alele Museum & Public Library

Mauritania

  • National Museum of Mauritania

Mexico

Moldova

  • National Museum of History of Moldova
  • National Museum of Fine Arts, Chișinău

Monaco

  • New National Museum of Monaco

Mongolia

Montenegro

  • National Museum of Montenegro

Morocco

  • Rabat Archaeological Museum

Myanmar

  • National Museum Nay Pyi Taw
  • National Museum of Myanmar

Namibia

  • National Museum of Namibia
    • Alte Feste
    • Owela Museum
  • Independence Memorial Museum

Nauru

  • Nauru Museum

Nepal

  • National Museum of Nepal

Netherlands

  • Dordrechts Museum
  • EYE Film Institute Netherlands
  • Huis Doorn
  • Kröller-Müller Museum
  • Loevestein
  • Mauritshuis
  • Muiderslot
  • Museum Boerhaave
  • Museum Catharijneconvent
  • Museum Meermanno
  • Museum Mesdag
  • National Museum of Ethnology
  • Naturalis
  • Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum
  • Paleis het Loo
  • Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
  • Rijksmuseum Twenthe
  • Rijksmuseum van Oudheden
  • Openluchtmuseum
  • Van Gogh Museum
  • Zuiderzeemuseum

New Zealand

  • Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa - commonly known as Te Papa or Our Place in English translation

Niger

  • Musée National Boubou Hama, formerly National Museum of Niger

Nigeria

  • Nigerian National Museum
  • Benin City National Museum
  • Ife National Museum
  • Esiẹ Museum

North Macedonia

  • Museum of the Republic of North Macedonia
  • National Gallery
  • Museum of the Macedonian Struggle (Skopje)
  • Museum of Contemporary Art (Skopje)

Norway

  • National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design

Oman

  • National Museum

Pakistan

  • National Museum of Pakistan, Karachi
  • Pakistan Museum of Natural History, Islamabad
  • National Art Gallery, Islamabad
  • Lok Virsa Museum, Islamabad

Palau

  • Belau National Museum

Panama

  • Museum of History of Panama

Papua New Guinea

  • Papua New Guinea National Museum and Art Gallery

Paraguay

  • Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Asunción

Peru

  • National Museum of Peru
  • Museum of the Nation
  • National Museum of the Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of Peru
  • Lima Art Museum

Philippines

The National Museum of the Philippines (NMP), a government organization, operates several national museums, including:

The National Museum Complex in Manila which consists of the central museums of the NMP namely the:

  • National Museum of Anthropology
  • National Museum of Fine Arts
  • National Museum of Natural History

The NMP also operates the following satellite museums:

  • National Museum Dumaguete
  • National Museum Western Visayas
  • National Museum Cordillera
  • National Museum Ilocos
  • National Museum Cagayan Valley
  • National Museum Bicol
  • National Museum Eastern-Northern Mindanao
  • National Museum Western-Southern Mindanao
  • National Museum Batanes
  • National Museum Marinduque-Romblon
  • National Museum Bohol
  • National Museum Sulu
  • National Museum Kabayan
  • National Museum Tabon Caves Site Museum
  • National Museum Angono-Binangonan

Poland

Main page: National Museum of Poland
  • National Museum, Kraków
  • National Museum, Gdańsk
  • National Maritime Museum, Gdańsk
  • National Museum, Lublin
  • National Museum, Poznań
  • National Museum, Szczecin
  • National Museum, Warsaw
  • National Museum, Wrocław

Portugal

  • Air Museum, part of the Portuguese Air Force
  • Grão Vasco National Museum
  • Porto Military Museum, part of the Portuguese Army
  • National Archaeology Museum
  • National Azulejo Museum
  • National Coach Museum
  • National Museum of Ancient Art
  • National Museum of Contemporary Art of Chiado
  • National Museum of Costume and Fashion
  • National Museum of Ethnology, it includes the Popular Art Museum
  • National Museum of Natural History and Science, part of the University of Lisbon
  • National Museum Machado de Castro
  • National Museum Soares dos Reis
  • National Music Museum
  • National Railway Museum
  • National Theatre and Dance Museum
  • Navy Museum, part of the Portuguese Navy

Qatar

  • Qatar National Museum

Romania

  • ASTRA Museum of Traditional Folk Civilization (Muzeul Civilizaţiei Populare Tradiţionale)
  • ASTRA Museum of Transylvanian Civilisation (Muzeul Civilizaţiei Transilvane)
  • Brukenthal National Museum
  • Emil Sigerus Museum of Saxon Ethnography and Folk Art (Muzeul de Etnografie şi Artă Populară Săsească ASTRA)
  • Franz Binder Museum of Universal Ethnography (Muzeul de Etnografie Universală ASTRA)
  • National History Museum of Romania
  • National Military Museum, Romania (Muzeul Militar Naţional)
  • National Museum of Art of Romania

Russia

  • Hermitage Museum
  • State Historical Museum
  • Russian Museum
  • Tretyakov Gallery
  • Pushkin Museum
  • Moscow Kremlin Museums
  • State Museum of Oriental Art
  • Central Armed Forces Museum
  • Museum of Political History of Russia
  • Shchusev Museum of Architecture
  • Vernadsky State Geological Museum

Rwanda

  • Ethnographic Museum

Saint Kitts and Nevis

  • National Museum of Saint Kitts

Samoa

  • Falemata'aga - Museum of Samoa

Saudi Arabia

  • National Museum of Saudi Arabia

Senegal

  • Museum of Black Civilisations
  • Historical Museum of Senegal in Gorée

Serbia

  • National Museum of Serbia
  • Historical Museum of Serbia

Sierra Leone

  • Sierra Leone National Museum

Singapore

  • National Museum of Singapore
  • National Gallery Singapore

Slovakia

  • Slovak National Museum
  • Slovak National History Museum
  • Slovak National Gallery

Slovenia

  • National Museum of Slovenia
  • National Gallery of Slovenia

Solomon Islands

  • Solomon Islands National Museum

Somalia

  • National Museum of Somalia

South Africa

  • South African National Museum of Military History
  • Iziko South African Museum
  • Ditsong Museums of South Africa
    • includes Ditsong National Museum of Natural History and Ditsong National Museum of Cultural History
  • National Museum, Bloemfontein
  • National Afrikaans Literary Museum and Research Centre

South Sudan

  • South Sudan National Museum

Spain

Catalonia

  • National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC), Barcelona
  • National Museum of Science and Industry of Catalonia (mNACTEC), Terrassa
  • Archaeological Museum of Catalonia (MAC), Barcelona, Empúries, Girona, Olèrdola and Ullastret

Sri Lanka

  • National Museum of Colombo
  • National Museum Galle
  • National Museum Kandy
  • National Museum Maritime
  • National Museum Ratnapura

Sudan

  • National Museum of Sudan

Suriname

  • Surinaams Museum

Sweden

  • Nationalmuseum

Switzerland

  • Swiss National Museum (Landesmuseum)

Syria

  • National Museum of Damascus
  • National Museum of Aleppo

Taiwan

  • Chunghwa Postal Museum
  • National Museum of History
  • National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium
  • National Museum of Marine Science and Technology
  • National Museum of Natural Science
  • National Museum of Prehistory
  • National Museum of Taiwan History
  • National Museum of Taiwan Literature
  • National Palace Museum
  • National Radio Museum
  • National Science and Technology Museum
  • National Taiwan Museum
  • National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts
  • Republic of China Air Force Museum
  • Republic of China Armed Forces Museum
  • Southern Branch of the National Palace Museum

Tajikistan

  • Tajikistan National Museum

Tanzania

  • National Museum of Tanzania

Thailand

Main page: National museums of Thailand

Togo

  • Togo National Museum

Tonga

  • Tonga National Museum

Trinidad and Tobago

  • National Museum and Art Gallery

Tunisia

Turkey

  • Museum of Anatolian Civilizations
  • Republic Museum
  • State Art and Sculpture Museum
  • Ethnography Museum of Ankara
  • War of Independence Museum
  • Istanbul Archaeology Museums
  • Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum
  • Istanbul Aviation Museum
  • Istanbul Naval Museum

Turkmenistan

  • Ashgabat National Museum of History
  • The State Museum of the State Cultural Center of Turkmenistan
  • Turkmen Museum of Fine Arts

Turks and Caicos

  • Turks and Caicos National Museum

Uganda

  • Uganda Museum

Ukraine

  • Aivazovsky National Art Gallery
  • Lviv National Art Gallery
  • Lviv National Museum
  • Museum of The History of Ukraine in World War II
  • National Art Museum of Ukraine
  • National Museum of the History of Ukraine
  • National Museum-Preserve "Battle for Kyiv 1943"
  • Ukrainian National Chornobyl Museum

United Arab Emirates

  • Al Ain National Museum
  • National Museum of Ras Al Khaimah
  • Dubai Museum
  • Etihad Museum
  • Emirates National Auto Museum

United Kingdom

Main page: National Museums of the United Kingdom

England

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Northern Ireland

Scotland

Wales

United States

Uruguay

Uzbekistan

  • State Museum of History of Uzbekistan
  • Art Gallery of Uzbekistan
  • Museum of Arts of Uzbekistan
  • State Museum of Nature of Uzbekistan
  • State Museum of History of Culture of Uzbekistan
  • Nukus Museum of Art

Vanuatu

  • National Museum of Vanuatu

Venezuela

  • National Art Gallery (Caracas)

Vietnam

  • Vietnam National Museum of History
  • Vietnam National Museum of Fine Arts
  • Vietnam Military History Museum
  • Ho Chi Minh City Museum of History

Yemen

  • National Museum of Yemen

Zambia

  • Lusaka National Museum

Zimbabwe

  • National Gallery of Zimbabwe
  • Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe
  • Zimbabwe Museum of Human Sciences

See also

  • List of museums
  • List of national archives
  • List of national libraries
  • List of national galleries
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